Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Les Menus propos.

Accession number
PML 65072
Object title

Les Menus propos.

Published

Imprimes nouvellement a Paris : par Jehan Treperel, [approximately 1497]

Description

[12] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Loeb and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schäfer, 1974.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r, with Tréperel's device.
Imprint from colophon, leaf B6r: Cy finent les menus propos Imprimes nouvellement a paris par Jehan treperel demourrant [sic] sur le pont nostre dame a lymaige sai[n]ct Laure[n]s.
CIBN dates 'circa 1487', presumably a misprint for 1497 (cf. M-300, '[post 1497]').
Signatures: A-B⁶: 12 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.1 x 13.7 cm.
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Bauzonnet-Trautz. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Joseph Crozet (d. 1841) (ex-info Lurde catalogue); Alexandre, comte de Lurde (1800-1872), collection inherited by his nephew: Alphonse de Ruble, baron (1831-1898) and Jeanne Bajot de Conantre (1839-1917), marriage armorial booklabel (front pastedown); Ruble sale, Paris, 3 June 1899, lot 115; Edmée Maus (1905-1971), monogram booklabel (front pastedown), no. 230 and bibliographic notes, Aug. 1967 (rear endleaf 3 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E. Rossignol as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Loeb and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schäfer, Aug. 1974.
Classification
Century
Department